Collateral Events

Castello, 5857 (Campo Santa Maria Formosa)
from August 29 to September 26
In Villa Della Torre-Hohenlohe in Castelnuovo di Sagrado (GO), three great stories coexist and intersect: the landscape and the architecture of the Carso, the echo of World War I, and the poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti. The project builds a specific, discrete and essential itinerary through the garden of the villa, in a sequence of poetry by Ungaretti, preserved in small architectural structures.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Tuesdays
admission freeOrganization: Associazione Amici di Castelnuovo

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio Maggiore Island
from August 27 to September 19Beyond Entropy: When Energy Becomes Form explores the relationship of art, architecture and science around the concept of energy. Directed by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the work is being conducted by teams of architects, artists and scientists from across Europe. Different forms of energy are being explored with methods that are as diverse as each participant’s background. The prototypes will be presented at Fondazione Cini from August 27.
opening hours: 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. closed on Tuesdays
admission freeOrganization: Architectural Association School of Architecture

Arsenale Novissimo – Spazio Thetis
from August 26 to November 21
The integration of multidisciplinary areas on the theme of the environment and contemporary habitat determines the understanding of events brought together under the title of Culture_Nature.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Saturdays and Sundays
admission freeOrganization: Politecnico di Torino

Arsenale Novissimo – Spazio Thetis – Padiglione “Modelli”
from August 29 to November 21
The E-picentrum project looks at the question of reconstruction in the Aquila area. Reconstruction cannot be restricted to restoring the functions of the city but must help redefine the collective identity. E-picentrum is intended to stimulate a critical reflection on what has been done and what will be done, considering that it is not enough to reconstruct the city, the links between people and places must also be repaired.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Saturdays and Sundays
admission freeOrganization: Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, Facoltà di Architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Dipartimento Architettura e Progetto; Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Entwerfen und Wohnungsbauu

Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A (Campo della Tana)
from August 29 to November 21
The project is dedicated to a subject involving every person who inhabits the earth. Metropoli//Antimetropoli speaks in 8 voices of the good and the bad, the hopes and defeats, the dreams and disappointments, the stories and legends, the realities and inventions of our restless world.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Tuesdays (except August 31 and November 16)
admission free
Organization: DIET Dipartimento di Ingegneria Edile e del Territorio dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia

Hotel Danieli – Saloni Marco Polo, Castello, 4196 (Riva Schiavoni)
from August 28 to September 9
The meeting between architecture and the culture of wine has led to the creation of numerous symbolic wineries. A comparison of the various contributions on the Italian scene will allow the innovative changes made by these works in the appreciation of places, culture and local traditions to be examined. This initial study is intended to promote the architectural quality of this particular type of building with the International Competition “Le cattedrali del vino”, offering prizes for the most significant wineries built in 2010-2012.
opening hours: 6 p.m. - 8:30
admission freeOrganization: O.A.R. - Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori di Roma e Provincia and IN/ARCH - Istituto Nazionale di Architettura

Arsenale Novissimo – Tesa di San Cristoforo 92
from August 27 to August 29Longing for… is a hybrid performance-installation focusing on translatory movements of choreography and architecture. Focusing on choreography as description and design of space, representational conventions of both disciplines will be brought into dialogue.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. (live performances at 4 and 6 p.m.)
admission freeOrganization: ARTIMAGE CONTEMPORARY informe

M9 - A New Museum for a New City. The International Architectural Competition

Via Alessandro Poerio 24, Venezia-Mestre
from August 28 to November 21
The studios Agence Pierre-Louis Faloci, Carmassi Studio di Architettura, David Chipperfield Architects, Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos, Sauerbruch Hutton and Souto Moura Arquitectos will present designs for the new museum and renovation of the former Matter barracks, which on this occasion will be open to the public for the first time.
opening hours: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; on Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; closed on Mondays
admission freeOrganization: Fondazione di Venezia

Venice International University - VIU, San Servolo Island
from August 26 to September 20
Venturing into a project far from the mass tourism postcard. The sense of the exhibition is set down in the moleskines with the visionary idea of Acqualta in 2060, a story and other provocations and farsighted perspectives. The considered reflections on the most Modern City in Europe suggest Public Roof Terraces and Bridges through to rediscovering pile-dwellings.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
admission freeOrganization: Venice International University – VIU

Ca’ASI, Cannaregio, 6024 (Campiello Santa Maria Nova)
from September 25 to November 21
Come to Ca’ASI in Campiello Santa Maria Nova and discover the new Chinese architecture through a selection of ten or so representative projects designed by breakthrough Chinese architects from all over the world!
opening hours: 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. closed on Tuesdays (except November 16)
admission freeOrganization: Ca’ASI Association

Ca’ASI, Cannaregio, 6024 (Campiello Santa Maria Nova)
from August 29 to September 19Paris La Défense Seine Arche, Alex MacLean Given a Free Hand is a photographic carte blanche commission given to the American photographer Alex MacLean to reveal the historical, urban and social continuity that has been established along one of the world’s grandest urban axes.
opening hours: 2 p.m. - 8 p.m.; closed on September 2, 7 and 14
admission freeOrganization: Public Development Authorities of La Défense Seine Arche

Different venues in the towns of Bassano del Grappa, Caldogno, Montorso Vicentino, Possagno, Schio, Valdagno, Venezia, Vicenza, and those of the Camposampierese area.
from September 2 to November 19
A permanent workshop for reconsidering the land. Two months of meetings, workshops, talks, conferences, congresses and, above all, activities in the most interesting places in the provinces of Padua, Treviso, Venice and Vicenza. An organized itinerary to Palladio villas, World War II bunkers, industrial areas, and abandoned factories.
See programme at www.provinciaitaliana.orgOrganization: Fuoribiennale and C4-Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno with Centro Studi Usine

Arsenale, Castello, 2126 (Campo della Tana)
from August 27 to November 21
The daily decisions we make as individuals collectively contribute to the overall environment and lasting well-being of the city. The Quotidian Architectures exhibition aims to explore and challenge the potential of design to create socially and environmentally responsible architectures for everyday life.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Tuesdays (except August 31 and November 16)
admission freeOrganization: The Hong Kong Institute of Architects and Hong Kong Arts Development Council

Palazzo Ducale, Loggia Foscara
from August 28 to October 30ConferenceL’AQUILA 2010. Luogo, identità, etica, ricostruzione, Salone del Piovego, 28 August 2010, 9:30 a.m. SISMYCITY is a photographic project on the consequences of the earthquake that struck Aquila and the surrounding district. Individual and collective identity, material and non-material heritage, common good, suspension of time: key words in a visual vocabulary of these relations and their link to building, contributing to a plural debate.
opening hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., daily (admission free from Porta della Carta).Organization: fuori_vista

Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco, Castello, 4209
from August 26 to November 21
While “slow” emerged as new value worldwide, our ambition is to create an alternative speed of “seeing” in the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Mondays
admission freeOrganization: The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMOFA)

Arsenale Novissimo – Tesa di San Cristoforo 94
from August 26 to October 7
The show’s 22 artists developed a special artistic engagement in interpreting the functional nature of space and its anthropological or political references. Taking space, taking ground and working in the cultural field are the centre of this exhibition.
opening hours: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. closed on Tuesdays
admission freeOrganization: Fondazione Mudima